A group of nine ISPs sent a letter to the ACCC accusing the telco of stifling competition and urging the regulator to throw its full force behind an investigation.
The Office of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) released figures yesterday on the number of complaints about telecommunications providers -- with some undesired results for ISPs.
After Bruce Billson, Opposition spokesperson for Communications, claimed yesterday that the federal government is planning on cutting subsidies to rural and regional broadband providers, a number of industry sources have cast doubt on whether the policy axe has been raised over the Australian Broadband Guarantee.
UK ISPs are adopting a code of practice that will enable them to shut down e-commerce sites found to have sent spam, regardless of how and from where the spam was sent.
Customers of Optus and iiNet, along with users of TPG and Internode, have a much faster Internet connection than their Telstra-using counterparts, according to results generated by ZDNet Australia's Broadband Speedtest.
Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.
Will new business models cut down the amount of people breaking the law, reduce the market for pirates and remove the need for litigation?
As the National Broadband Network pricing debate continues, we should consider which is the most appropriate model for costing a bit that costs virtually nothing to carry.
This week on Twisted Wire we look at how internet usage is changing in Australia and around the world. How are we meeting this demand and how is the cost structure changing for the service provider?
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.
There is no suggestion even by government that this filter would aid law enforcement, and nobody, including the ISPs themselves, has suggested there is any possibility that the pilot will tell a different story.
The obvious candidates for consolidation in Australia's telecommunications sector are the 170 internet service providers that are scratching to make a living, but others include Dodo, M8 Telecom, Macquarie Telecom and Eftel.
Australia's first pure wireless Internet service provider launched its commercial broadband Internet service in Sydney today, claiming full independence from Telstra-owned telephony infrastructure.
It has taken only four years for spam to become the bane of business but, as SMBs are finding, spam can be killed before it enters inboxes with the use of a hosted provider.
Australian ISPs have ambitions to become content providers as well as connection providers.
Former BigPond group managing director Justin Milne talks about whether there is a conflict between the ISP and cable TV provider Foxtel.
ISP-level content filtering won't work, according to three of Australia's largest internet service providers.
iiNet could soon be providing mobile phone services through a major partnership, according to CTO Greg Bader. He also revealed that the ISP is confident it will replace Optus as Australia's second largest broadband provider.
Modem manufacturer D-Link had been distributing one of its ADSL modems to some of Telstra's largest wholesale customers without the carrier's interoperability certification for around four months.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.
NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway provides an easy set-up, good coverage and modest speed. While this system gives you the advantage of portable wireless gateway, wireless services are less reliable and cannot match ADSL2 speeds.
NetComm have offered a small scale DSLAM designed for hotels, serviced apartments or serviced offices. We found it to be a very robust device which is easy to deploy and manage.
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